How Much

[amusingadam 6 1 Cars]

Let me ask you guts what you have spent on your car, were not talking about service parts e.g. tyres were talking about the cost of the car when you brought it and what you have spent on it to keep it looking like a sexy (estimate), example brought my 1.9 for £600 (stole it by the way) and spent £500 looks tidy for an everyday car but by no means a mint one but turns heads and get comments??????

[harryskid 193]

I'am a "GUT" thats spent far too much!

[Alan77 78 1 Cars]

I bought my car for a respectable price back in 2001. I have a box of cleaning products, maybe £100 worth. Oh and lets not forget the £4k-£5k that its had just to keep it alive and healthy over the past 12 years...

[GLPoomobile 958]

I'm not going to say how much I paid for mine as I'm ashamed. But I did bry my previous 1.6 for £450 around about 2006, tidied it up and transferred some good stuff off the previous 1.9 I was stripping, and then srold it again for £400 about a year later. Best GTI I've had too

 

Did you see what I did there?

[Simes 248 2 Cars]

Current one.

£400.

Agree value insured for £5k.

 

They say every 10bhp gained costs £1k,

Mine has almost 70bhp more than standard.

[rallyeash 155]

Bought my 205 Rallye in 2005 as a standard 1400 for £700.Think I've spent about 20k over the years on it now.

Edited January 10, 2013 by rallyeash

[GilesW 41]

My last track day car (cavalier), bought for £700.

Spent over the years of development on it about £34k.

 

Broke it up after 7 years and got about £7.5k back.

 

The 205 I bought cheap. Spent not a huge amount. And still have it.

Edited January 10, 2013 by GilesW

[laldy875 6 1 Cars]

Bought my 205 Rallye in 2005 as a standard 1400 for £700.Think I've spent about 20k over the years on it now.

holy moses

[welshpug 1,657]

20k is nothing to some, half that can be swallowed easily into an engine, you'd imagine something Like Colin Satchell's car would be twice that if you accounted for colin's own time as well as his friends that have helped.

 

I've spent nowhere near that much over the 8 years I've had mine, but its still too much

[dcc 855]

Erm. 205 cost me £950. spent a bit more than that on it...

[bondyshambles 23 1 Cars]

Purchased the car April 2012 for £1200....spent £2283.69 on it so far getting it back to former glory. A specific figure i hear you say, thats because i have logged every penny and kept every reciept. So far 29 different reciepts for the car from body clips to rear beam mind you there is some labour costs in that too.

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

I paid £575 for mine and probably 10k+ spent on it

Been through many different parts, engines etc

 

[adamtrant 0]

I paid ~£300 for my latest one from my boss and it's now fully restored with my old Mi motor which I rebuilt at the end of last year. I haven't dared to tally up how much I have spent on this one yet!!

[brumster 135 1 Cars]

I know it to the £ (more or less) and there's no way I'm putting it up on here! Well, not until the day I'm selling

[Batfink 201]

Current one cost me £500. I've spent about £100 but I'm stripping it to a bare shell for a respray. I've got some good contacts in the trade though to keep costs low

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

bought my shell as rolling for £600 and spent 4-5 k in about two years

[Carbs4me 45]

Ive had 2 one i got for 300 1.6 non sunroof which i spend most of my life trying to get to work properly... and £650 for my 1.9 which has had most the problems with rear axles its on its 3rd in the 3rd year of owning it! and 3rd engine!!